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唾面自乾

简唾面自干 · 繁唾面自乾

Mandarin · pinyin tuò miàn zì gān

to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom); to turn the other cheek
to drain the cup of humiliation

Characters in this entry

唾: tuò · spit, spit on; saliva
面: miàn · face; surface; plane; side, dimension; Kangxi radical 176
自: zì · self, private, personal; from; Kangxi radical 132
乾: qián · gān · dry; warming principle of the sun, penetrating and fertilizing, heavenly generative principle (male); trigram ☰; hexagram ䷀
干: gàn · oppose, offend; invade; dried

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4–4–4–1 · tuo4 mian4 zi4 gan1

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to3 min6 zi6 gon1

Cantonese word readings for 唾面自乾. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.

to3 min6 zi6 gon1

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